Coincidentally and (hopefully) fortuitously, Britain’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is headed by a vegetarian, the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, and as is one of his ministers, the one whose responsible for Food, Farming and the Environment, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, so reports the right wing Daily Mail.
Jay Rayner writing in the, ahem, Guardian, worries over Food is the new fur for the celebrity with a conscience.
It is, by anybody’s standards, an arresting image: a truly beautiful photograph of a luscious, radiant creature, all shiny eyes and silky skin. And Greta Scacchi, who is pictured clutching the cod to her naked body, doesn’t look bad either. In the months and years to come, this picture, flashed throughout the British media last week, will doubtless come to be seen as the seminal image for a particular moment, when the gruelling, knotty business of campaigning around food issues finally became sexy.
You’ll remember that Rayner once tried veganism “My Vegan Hell: Jay Rayner struggles through a week on a vegan diet”.
What bothers the Grumpy Vegan about the recent press to launch the new documentary, “The End of the Line,” is the publicity shots with the de rigueur celebrities is this: Why are these fish out of water? Will the PETA celebrities start posing with dead animals wrapped around them?
